"of the Duchess's bedroom, the Giraffe and the Monkey spot a burglar attempting to steal the Duchess's jewels. The Pelican then flies in and catches the burglar, holding him prisoner in his beak despite the burglar's attempt to shoot his way out. Soon the police arrive to arrest the burglar, whom the Chief of Police identifies as ""The Cobra"", one of the world's most dangerous cat burglars. As a reward for retrieving the Duchess's jewels, the Duke invites The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company to live on his estate as his personal helpers. Since he is the owner of the only tinkle-tinkle"
"the Pelly and Me"". Giraffes have appeared in animated films, as minor characters in Disney's ""The Lion King"" and ""Dumbo"", and in more prominent roles in ""The Wild"" and in the ""Madagascar"" films. Sophie the Giraffe has been a popular teether since 1961. Another famous fictional giraffe is the Toys ""R"" Us mascot Geoffrey the Giraffe. The giraffe has also been used for some scientific experiments and discoveries. Scientists have looked at the properties of giraffe skin when developing suits for astronauts and fighter pilots because the people in these professions are in danger of passing out if blood rushes"
"a window-washer by trade, and has a very good working relationship with his partners, the Giraffe whose neck can stretch out to any length and the Pelican (""Pelly), the top half of whose bill can collapse inwards like a tape-measure: the Giraffe is the ladder, the pelican (with his deeply pouched bill) is the bucket for the water, and the monkey cleans the windows with a cloth. He is an adept singer and dancer. Whilst he is working for the Duke of Hampshire, the Monkey and the Giraffe notice an armed burglar stealing the Duchess' jewellery, whereupon the Pelican traps"
"the world and to continue his newfound friendship with the Minpins. The Minpins The Minpins is a book by Roald Dahl with illustrations by Patrick Benson. It was published in 1991, a few months after Dahl's death in November 1990, and is the author's final contribution to literature after an illustrious career spanning almost half a century. The book was republished in 2017 under the title Billy and the Minpins with new illustrations by Quentin Blake. Little Billy is forbidden by his mother to enter the Forest of Sin behind his house. She tells him of the Whangdoodle, Hornswogglers, Snozzwanglers"
"Melman the giraffe, and Alex the lion. Each character in the game has his or her own ability. To gain their abilities, the player must first find three cards, known as power cards, to gain the character's ability. Marty the Zebra (Phil LaMarr), Alex the Lion (Wally Wingert), Gloria the Hippopotamus (Bettina Bush) and Melman the Giraffe (Stephen Stanton) live in the Central Park Zoo in New York City, New York. On Marty's tenth birthday, Marty starts to have doubts that the zoo is where he belongs, and finds that life in the zoo is boring. That night, a penguin"
"Roly-Poly Bird The Roly-Poly Bird is a fictional character in children's books by Roald Dahl. He appears in ""The Enormous Crocodile' (1978), ""The Twits"" (1980), and the poetry collection ""Dirty Beasts"" (1983). The Roly-Poly Bird appears in a number of children's books by Roald Dahl – in two cases alongside Muggle-Wump the monkey. The Roly-Poly Bird is large, with fantastically coloured tailfeathers, and in Quentin Blake's illustrations has a blue body, a long neck and a crest on his head - rather like a peacock. He nests in an orange tree at least once, and his favourite foods are berries."
"giraffe deriving from the Ancient Greek for camel and leopard, referring to its camel-like shape and its leopard-like colouring. Living giraffes were originally classified as one species by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. He gave it the binomial name ""Cervus camelopardalis"". Morten Thrane Brünnich classified the genus ""Giraffa"" in 1772. The species name ""camelopardalis"" is from Latin. The giraffe is one of only two living genera of the family Giraffidae in the order Artiodactyla, the other being the okapi. The family was once much more extensive, with over 10 fossil genera described. Their closest known relatives are the extinct deer-like climacocerids."
"The Minpins The Minpins is a book by Roald Dahl with illustrations by Patrick Benson. It was published in 1991, a few months after Dahl's death in November 1990, and is the author's final contribution to literature after an illustrious career spanning almost half a century. The book was republished in 2017 under the title Billy and the Minpins with new illustrations by Quentin Blake. Little Billy is forbidden by his mother to enter the Forest of Sin behind his house. She tells him of the Whangdoodle, Hornswogglers, Snozzwanglers and Vermicious knids that live in the forest. Worst of all"
"Muggle-Wump ""Muggle-Wump"" is a fictional character in some of Roald Dahl's books for children, and ""the Muggle-Wumps"" are his family. A Muggle-Wump appears in ""The Enormous Crocodile"" and there is a Muggle-Wump with a family in ""The Twits"". A character resembling him (shown in Quentin Blake's illustrations) also appears in ""The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me"". The first two stories have him almost as a symbol of retribution to the antagonists of the overall tale, whereas in the last one he is happy and safe. The Muggle-Wump of ""The Enormous Crocodile"", after reasoning with the wily reptile that it"
"Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys is a 1939 children's short story written and illustrated by German-American author H. A. Rey. It is the first story to feature Rey's now-famous character, Curious George. When it was first published in France, Cecily's original name was ""Rafi""; ""Raffy"" when it was first published in the United Kingdom. But when it appeared in the United States, the character was renamed ""Cecily"". The story follows the exploits of Cecily Giraffe, or simply ""Cecily G."" for short. She is saddened by the loss of her fellow jungle animals and"
"far brighter than George, whom George refers to as ""Fella."" (the phrase in the title song """"[W}hile Fella and Ursula stay in step..."""" is meant to show that they are the same person.) George's closest friend is an ape named Ape (voiced by Paul Frees impersonating Ronald Colman) who, like Ursula, is far more intelligent than George. George has a pet elephant named Shep, who behaves like a lap dog, or, as George refers to him, a ""great big peanut-lovin' poochie,"" and who George thinks is a dog. Also of note is the Tooky Tooky (or Tookie Tookie) bird famous"
"19th century as a gift from Muhammad Ali of Egypt to Charles X of France. A sensation, the giraffe was the subject of numerous memorabilia or ""giraffanalia"". Giraffes continue to have a presence in modern culture. Salvador Dalí depicted them with burning manes in some of his surrealist paintings. Dali considered the giraffe to be a symbol of masculinity, and a flaming giraffe was meant to be a ""masculine cosmic apocalyptic monster"". Several children's books feature the giraffe, including David A. Ufer's ""The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights"", Giles Andreae's ""Giraffes Can't Dance"" and Roald Dahl's ""The Giraffe and"
"rag doll called Madeleine. The wooden woodpecker bookend became the drily academic Professor Yaffle (based on the philosopher Bertrand Russell, whom Postgate had once met), while the mice carved on the side of the ""mouse organ"" (a small mechanical pipe organ that played rolls of music) woke up and scurried around, singing in high-pitched voices. Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner provided the voices of Madeleine and Gabriel respectively, and put together and performed all the folk songs. All the other voices (including the narrator and one out-of-tune mouse) were provided by Postgate, who also wrote the stories. The toys discussed"
"in a stroller. In the episode ""Dance Fever"" it is revealed that the pig's name is Rosie. The wild animals are a hare, squirrels, hedgehogs, and two wolves. Masha and a certain Hare (in the episode 'One, two three! Light the Christmas Tree' the present list of Father Frost in English describes this creature as 'Bunny') often play hockey together (and make a mess or accidentally hurt someone), and the Hare is occasionally an antagonist of the Bear, due to stealing carrots from the Bear's garden. The two Wolves live in a derelict ambulance car on top of a hill"
"Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, & a Raven"" was published in February 2011 in the US by Penguin, and widely reviewed to great acclaim. The book consists of eight reflections told from the point of view of a different animal. Each beast reflects on the remembrance of communism in different countries in Eastern Europe. Although some reviewers interpreted the book as condemnation of communism and its lingering effects, the book also critiques the ravages of the economic system that replaced it. In the second to last chapter, a Romanian dog explains that"
"featuring ""fabulous animals"" such as Edgar Allan Poe's ""The Raven"", E. Nesbit's ""Psammead"", T. S. Eliot's ""Mr. Mistoffelees"", and ""Rollicum Bitem the Fox"" by John Masefield. Kpo the Leopard Kpo the Leopard is an African wildlife story about a female leopard-cub written by French children's writer René Guillot (1900–1969), who lived, worked and travelled for much of his life in French Africa. Set initially in the African jungle, the story moves, after Kpo and her mother escape from a forest fire, to new hunting-grounds in the African Plain, and tells the story of Kpo's adventures as she matures into a"
"took the name from the great ""flying"" filly, Fifinella, who won The Derby and Epsom Oaks in 1916, the year Dahl was born. Gremlins were imaginary beings endowed with potent magical powers. According to the lore, these mischievous, elf-like creatures were responsible for all kinds of mechanical failures and other problems. They would also be there to tickle the pilots and bombardiers right at the moment they were lined up for a good run, threatening them with last-second errors of judgment. At first, these gremlins were seen as enemy agents, but it was realized that they played their pranks anywhere,"
"they should join forces against a common enemy, Hitler and the Nazis, rather than fight each other. Eventually, the gremlins are re-trained by the Royal Air Force to repair rather than sabotage aircraft, and restore Gus to active flight status after a particularly severe crash. The book also contains picturesque details about the ordinary lives of gremlins: baby gremlins, for instance, are known as widgets, and females as fifinellas, a name taken from the great ""flying"" filly racehorse Fifinella, that won both The Derby and Epsom Oaks in 1916, the year Dahl was born. The publication of ""The Gremlins"" by"
"Griffin The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Greek: γρύφων, ""grýphōn"", or γρύπων, ""grýpōn"", early form ""γρύψ"", ""grýps""; ) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and sometimes an eagle's talons as its front feet. Because the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle the king of birds by the Middle Ages the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature. Since classical antiquity, Griffins were known for guarding treasure and priceless possessions. In Greek and Roman texts, griffins and"
"In some stories he dates Clarabelle Cow while other times he is shown as a single parent. His original name was Dippy Dawg. Pluto is Mickey Mouse's pet dog who was first introduced in 1930 as Minnie's dog Rover and in 1931 as Mickey's dog. Unlike the anthropomorphic Goofy, Pluto is characterized as a normal dog who walks on four legs, and almost never speaks. Clarabelle Cow is a tall, anthropomorphic cow who is Minnie Mouse's friend and is introduced in 1928. She is prone to gossip and occasionally plays a well-meaning but ineffective parent figure to Donald Duck. She"
"Her name has Chinese origins and means ""beautiful"". Her favorite instrument is the keytar. Her characteristic phrase: """"Yes! Yaahh! Yaahh! Yaahh!"""". Hoggie: He is a 7-year-old pig who likes to contradict everybody. He is characterized by being moody, grumpy and selfish. His name has an Anglo-Saxon origin and means ""pig"" in English. He is a good athlete and a musician. His favorite instrument is the saxophone. His characteristic phrase: """"Me neither"""". Arafa: She is a giraffe and she is 25 years old. She is a sweet, sympathetic, and a motherly teacher. She is the only adult in the series. Her"
"Apple Tree, and Bramble Perry 214. The Mole Perry 215. The Wasps and the Partridges Perry 216. The Wasp and the Snake Perry 217. The Bull and the Wild Goats Perry 218. The Ape's Twin Offspring Perry 219. The Peacock and the Jackdaw Perry 220. Camel and Elephant, Candidates for King Perry 221. Zeus and the Snake Perry 222. The Sow and the Bitch Perry 223. A Dispute concerning Fecundity Perry 224. The Wild Boar and the Fox Perry 225. The Miser and his Gold Perry 226. The Tortoise and the Hare Perry 227. The Swallow nesting on the Courthouse"
"Giraffe The giraffe (""Giraffa"") is a genus of African even-toed ungulate mammals, the tallest living terrestrial animals and the largest ruminants. The genus currently consists of one species, ""Giraffa camelopardalis"", the type species. Seven other species are extinct, prehistoric species known from fossils. Taxonomic classifications of one to eight extant giraffe species have been described, based upon research into the mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, as well as morphological measurements of ""Giraffa,"" but the IUCN currently recognises only one species with nine subspecies. The giraffe's chief distinguishing characteristics are its extremely long neck and legs, its horn-like ossicones, and its distinctive"
"Perry 228. The Geese and the Cranes Perry 229. The Swallow and the Crow Perry 230. The Turtles takes Lessons from the Eagle Perry 231. The Athlete and the Flea Perry 232. The Foxes at the Meander River Perry 233. The Swan and his Owner (noticed under The Swan and the Goose) Perry 234. The Wolf and the Shepherd (Referenced under The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing) Perry 235. The Ant and the Dove Perry 236. The Travellers and the Crow Perry 237. A Donkey Bought on Approval Perry 238. The Fowler and the Pigeons Perry 239. The Depositary and the"
"as loyal and patient in his 1819 poem ""Peter Bell:A Tale"", using the donkey as a Christian symbol. Robert Louis Stevenson in ""Travels with a Donkey"" (1879), portrays the animal as a stubborn beast of burden. Sympathetic portrayals return in Juan Ramon Jimenez's ""Platero and I."" The melancholy Eeyore in ""Winnie the Pooh"" (first published in 1926) is arguably the most famous donkey in Western literature. Donkeys were featured in literature during the 20th century, including in George Orwell's 1951 ""Animal Farm"", where Benjamin the donkey is portrayed as resilient and loyal. Puzzle is a well-meaning but easily manipulated donkey"
"otter (""Enhydra lutris""), bearded seal (""Erignathus barbatus""), donkey (""Equus asinus""), cougars (""Felis concolor coryi"", ""Felis concolor stanleyana""), bobcat (""Felis rufus floridanus""), Atlantic white-sided dolphins (""Lagenorhynchus acutus""), guanaco (""Lama guanicoe""), alpaca (""Vicugna pacos""), otter (""Lutra lutra""), wild dog (""Lycaon pictus""), Bartels's spiny rat (""Maxomys bartelsii""), Musschenbroek's spiny rat (""Maxomys musschenbroekii""), prairie vole (""Microtus ochrogaster""), common European weasel (""Mustela nivalis""), mink (""Mustela vison""), muskrat (""Ondatra zibethica""), mountain goats (""Oreamnos americanus""), Grant's gazelle (""Nanger granti""), slow loris (""Nycticebus coucang""), African lions (""Panthera leo""), leopard (""Panthera pardus""), tiger (""Panthera tigris""), baboon (""Papio cynocephalus""), Pacific harbor seal (""Phoca vitulina richardsi"") chamois (""Rupicapra rupicapra""), Polynesian rat"
"knowledge of; John is a superior litigator, and he takes pride in his superiority in the court room as it is one of the few places he feels comfortable and confident, proclaiming it to be one of the only places where he knows for certain he won't be ridiculed. John has a pet frog called Steffan whom he has trained to perform several tricks. He later gets a second frog from his colleague Nelle Porter which he calls Millie, as a tribute to the hamster that Nelle had as a child. To outsiders John often comes across as a 'funny"
"offer. To dissuade further advances, he tells each animal that he has plans to dine with his friend, a gruffalo, a monster-like hybrid that is half grizzly bear and half buffalo, whose favourite food happens to be the relevant animal, and describes the features of the gruffalo's monstrous anatomy. Frightened that the gruffalo might eat it, each animal flees. Knowing the gruffalo to be fictional, the mouse gloats thus: After getting rid of the last animal, the mouse is shocked to encounter a ""real"" gruffalo – with all the frightening features the mouse thought that he was inventing. The gruffalo"
"a best-seller. Other animal stories and fiction publications include: ""Elephant Have Right of Way"" (1973), ""There's a Rhino in the Rose Bed"", ""Mother"" (1973), ""That Nairobi Affair"" (1975), ""Bagomoyo, A Falling Star, The Giraffe Lady, Daisy Rothschild: The Giraffe Who Lives With Me"" (children's book), and ""Walter Warthog"" (1989), a children's story about the tame warthog they named after their friend Walter Cronkite, the CBS news anchorman. The books helped to raise more funds for the Giraffe Centre they set up at Langata, Kenya in 1983. She died on September 23, 2005 in Baltimore. Betty Leslie-Melville Betty Leslie Melville (née"
"the princely eagle,/Under whose shade the ramping lion slept"" (5.2.9–13). Other animals referred to in the play include dogs (1.4.56, 2.1.15 and 2.5.129), woodcocks (1.4.61), rabbits (1.4.62), snakes (1.4.112 and 2.2.15), tigers (1.4.138, 1.4.155 and 3.1.39), cattle (2.1.14), bears (2.1.15, 2.2.13 and 3.2.161), toads (2.2.138), bulls (2.5.126), hares (2.5.131), chameleons (3.2.191) and foxes (4.7.25). One of the most obvious themes in the play is revenge, which is cited numerous times by various different characters as the driving force for their actions. At different points in the play, Henry, Northumberland, Westmorland, Clifford, Richard, Edward and Warwick all cite a desire for"
"on the Twits' return, have two birds drop some glue on the couple's heads. On entering their house, the Twits believe that their living room has turned upside down and that they must therefore be standing on the ceiling, and so stand on their heads and become stuck. Muggle-Wump and his family are then able to return to Africa with the help of the Roly-Poly Bird, presumably to live happily ever after. Possibly not a Muggle-Wump at all, but said to resemble them, this monkey refers to himself in the title ""The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me"". He is"
"My Family and Other Animals My Family is Animal (1956) is an autobiographical work by British naturalist Leslie Durrell. It tells of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. It describes the life of the Durrell family in a humorous manner, and explores the fauna of the island. It is the first and most well-known of Durrell's 'Corfu trilogy,' together with ""Birds, Beasts, and Relatives"" (1969) and ""The Garden of the Gods"" (1978). Durrell had already written several successful books about his trips"
"the fortune. Last, but by no means least, was ""Percy's Pets"" by Stan McMurtry (alias Mac) which would make sporadic reappearances from time to time in the new ""Smash"", after March 1969. Percy was a small plump schoolboy, who filled his family's home with his exotic collection of pets. These included (from time to time) an elephant, a giraffe, a hippopotamus, a snake, an ape - in fact almost every type of animal that might be found in a typical zoo - together with a parrot, a tortoise, a white mouse, and a hedgehog; thereby causing a predictable degree of"